Allow Hotkeys in Slideshow

[rabodearraia]

Hello! I have been playing for two days now but cannot get the following to work:

I want to use XnViewMP to start a slideshow upon a hotkey or after 5 Minutes of idletime (a screensaver in windows). And then I want to be able to press buttons to assign categories and ratings during the slideshow. I have thousands of photos and let the slideshow run constantly next to me. I cannot motivate myself to do this in the browser window but it is feasible to just have the slideshow run and press "F" to assign an image to the category "favorite" and press 5 to give it a five star rating and press "k" to assign it to the category "kids" and "s" to assign it to the category "sports".

I used autohotkey to make most of it work, but categories do not work in quickslideshow. For now I got to the point where i use the "MouseClick" command in autohotkey to go to the no rating smart album to start a quick slideshow with all the images that have no rating yet - pretty unreliable but I didn't find another way. And I can assign color labels in the quick slideshow - but only one per image, not various like with categories.

So my proposal is to make a slideshow standalone that starts a smart album, uses few resources and allows hotkeys for all functions of metadata editing. That is the way I can see myself succeed in labeling my 50 000+ collection of photos and let slideshows run according to category (via smart album) during visits of certain groups (the sports association, the family meeting, etc). I do think this is something lots of people could use?!


Or at least allow hotkeys in the normal slideshow so it can be called from the command line (please with a smart album option - pretty please!)
And allow category hotkeys in the slideshow.
You could make a setting to allow or disallow the view-mode hotkeys in slideshow.

PS: I found out that category hotkeys only work in browser mode but only if they do not conflict with color label hotkeys - but they do not work in view mode or quick slideshow. (I have even tried to make an "automatic manual" slideshow in viewmode with autohotkey pushing the right button every 10 seconds, but category hotkeys don't work there either).

Thanks for any answer, if there is a way to do what I want to do with the existing functionality I would be most happy for advice !
I come from JRiver Media Center for renaming my photo collection and am very happy I found a freeware version that can do all the amazing things XnViewMP can do! I am ready to chip in in translation... (German, English, Spanish)

[xnview]

sorry but currently you can't access categories functions in slideshow, you can perhaps use the 'quick slideshow' in image's tab

[Jinga_Archivist]

As far as assigning categories with hotkeys, I don't do that.
I agree sorting in the browser is not ideal for me either. I like to see full size. For assigning categories in mass what I do is I checkmark only images I want to view in view mode. For instance, I might start with selecting only images that have no category or need to have common categories. Then I filter by check marked. Next, I Open the first image in the results list in view mode. From there start a "quick slideshow" in fullscreen. (It will only go through what is currently filtered in the browser). Options in the "misc." menu for View settings can change how long until the next picture advances.

Not sure if you know that you can use the color label hotkeys while a quick slide show is going.

With this going I then choose a color label that I can later filter by. I have hotkeys for my color labels already and they all mean something for when I'm sorting. For instance, red means "remove". Green is "keep" or favorite. But I usually, use color labels temporarily just for sorting. So, each color label can, mentally, mean whatever I want.

So, what you could do is mark all certain images a certain color as your slideshow is progressing. Later in the browser, filter by that color. Then you can select all of them and add the categories that are in common with them. Remove the color label when you are done sorting for whatever reason you had them that color for. As you keep doing this it gets easier because you can then combine it with filtering by categories AND colors AND check marks.

I admit that this is an odd roundabout way of doing it, but with some creative filtering you can do a quick slide show of what is currently filtered so you don't have to sludge through unrelated pics.